Another Sister Trope to Western Terrorists and African Terrorists, they are terrorists who have their base of operations in the Far Eastern part of the Asian continent (which is made up of South/Southeast and East Asia), where they conduct operations against domestic/foreign governments and interests. They can also be based in other places, but are primarily made up (the majority at least) of individuals who are of Far East Asian origin. Like African Terrorists, they are sometimes used by a well-funded criminal/terrorist organization as mooks, usually by a Western man (or woman). Otherwise, they may be led by a Middle Eastern terrorist.

Creators can draw inspiration from Real Life sources and cases where terrorism has occurred in the Far East, such as communist or nationalist groups. In other cases, they also include religious terrorist groups in the region.

Compare Western Terrorists, which consists of terrorists who are born/raised in Western countries from the Americas to Europe, including Australia and New Zealand, and African Terrorists, which consists of terrorists who are born/raised in the African continent.

Examples

Black Lagoon has the Protectors of the Islamic Front, based in the Philippines, as a major antagonist in the "Goat, Jihad, Rock'N Roll" arc.note It's called the Islamic Front of National Salvation in the manga. The group is led by Ibraha, who comes from the Middle East (or West Asia). The manga mentions the Abu Sayyaf Group as one of its allies. Rock encounters Masahiro Takenaka, ex-member of the Japanese Red Army who based himself in the Philippines' Mindanao region from Adachi due to the National Police Agency and other police force's successful arrest of JRA members in Japan and overseas. The New People's Army also gets a brief mention in Roanapur by Dutch since the series implies that Lagoon Company delivers weapons and ammo to their hideouts in the country.

Played with in Code Geass with the Japanese Liberation Front, especially with Kusakabe's faction when he takes Britannian civilians hostages with one being executed by being kicked off the roof to show the media that he's serious.

Mithril gets involved in a kidnapping caused by a Chinese terrorist group when North and South Chinese officials are involved in peace talks in Full Metal Panic!: The Second Raid. However, the existence of the said group was not real since Amalgam created the group's name and existence in order to draw Mithril forces into an ambush.

In the first season, Public Security Section 9 takes on the New World Brigade as a minor antagonist, which is a Japanese leftist terrorist group that adhere to anti-cyberization stances taken from the Human Liberation Front. One of their most notorious terror attacks was the kidnapping of the daughter of a known businessman responsible for creating cyberbrains. The unit eventually rescue her and takes custody of her and her young daughter, who was initially mistaken for the kidnap victim, conceived while being in NWB custody as it took a toll on the young woman's health as she became very old due to her captivity.

In the 2nd season Section 9 and other Japanese law enforcement agencies take on the Individual Eleven, which was said to be an anti-refugee terrorist group, as well as militant refugees who wish to remain in Japan in order to be naturalized Japanese or seek asylum for themselves or for their loved ones. Turns out that Goda and his CIS agency was responsible for allowing them to conduct their activities and seek a change in government to return back to the days of the Second Pacific War.

In the first episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Celestial Being engages Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (or Tamil Tigers) mobile suits as a minor antagonist in Sri Lanka when the group announces its existence to the world. Although the group was defeated by the Sri Lankan military in the early 2000s, it's possible that militant Tamils got together to recreate the group once more as there are plans to revive the movement from outside of Sri Lanka.

In the manga adaptation of Najica Blitz Tactics, Najica and Lila are tasked to protect the daughter of a weapons research scientist from being kidnapped by a Japanese terrorist group called San. The manga series does not mention what ideology it follows.

The Red Empire in Robot Taekwon V. It was created by Dr. Kaff who was disgraced by his peers in the scientist community that he decided to use his intellect for evil after he disappeared from South Korea.

Averted in Pugad Baboy since Ka Noli is a heroic New People's Army guerrilla who helps his neighbors, especially his Air Force friend Tomas, when they're in trouble by using his NPA connections. It doesn't stop some of his comrades from acting like Dirty Communists.

The Blue Lotus has one for Mitsuhirato, a Japanese man based in Shanghai as he sabotaged railways in China on behalf of ultranationalist officials in the Japanese military and government, which sparked the Mukden Incident. Although he also works alongside Rastapopoulos and the Kih-Oskh Brotherhood to conduct opium smuggling operations in the country.

Averted with the Sons of the Dragons as they are a legitimate resistance movement against Japanese occupation and the drug trade. Though to be fair, the Japanese (and their collaborators) will address the SOD as "insurgents".

The terrorist group Red Bamboo is treated as a minor antagonist in a few Godzilla movies.

In Olympus Has Fallen, Kang Yeonsak is the terrorist of a North Korean-backed terrorist group called Koreans for United Freedom or KUF for short. The movie doesn't elaborate if they are made up of North Koreans, pro-North Koreans or Korean-speaking mercenaries.

In Dave Chappelle's sketch "Why Terrorists Don't Take Black Hostages", he enacts a typical hostage taking where the terrorist yells in broken English and stereotypically Middle-Eastern accent—then off-handedly remarks that the terrorist is Chinese.

In Hawaii Five-0, Steve and Danno get involved in a case where the kidnapping of a State Department official's child was planned by terrorists from the National Liberation Front, which is an Expy of the New People's Army, the armed military wing of the underground Communist Party of the Philippines.

Takes a parody twist in the first season of Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger when Blatantly Evil Marketing Firm B's Dr. Z changes the group's name to the Delusion Empire, which is a shout out to Shocker of the Showa-era Kamen Rider series.

For the IRIS and Athena: Goddess of War series, South Korean law enforcement and intelligence agencies taken on the Korean branches of Iris and Athena, the former for conducting terror attacks to prevent the North and South Korean government from conducting attempts on peace talks for Iris to profit from another future Korean War and the latter for the South Korean government's stance on creating indigenous nuclear technology and selling it abroad via technology transfer, ruining chances of Athena to gain revenue from buying and selling energy resources aside from contractor services and resource management.

When Kamen Rider was first broadcasted in the Showa era, most of the enemies of the Kamen Riders are Japanese branches of various terrorist groups such as Shocker, Gel-Shocker, Destron, Geddon, Government of Darkness, followed by Black Satan and Neo-Shocker (which is just another attempt to resurrect Shocker from Japanese soil) and the Delza Army (created from remnants of Black Satan). Averted with Geldam (they merged with Shocker to create Gel-Shocker), the Garanda Empire (created from remnants of Geddon), the Dogma Kingdom and Jin Dogma (they came from space), Gorgom (just a cult) and the Crisis Empire (also aliens from space). Also averted with much of the Heisei era since most of them are evil corporations, demons, magical beings, aliens, individuals given superhuman/monster powers via technology or rogue government units and supersoldiers with the exception of NEVER, which is a terrorist group comprised of undead supersoldiers.

In both NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS agents deal with Abu Sayyaf Group terrorists as a minor antagonist group as they were involved in anti-American terror attacks, one of them being successful.

In Now and Again, a recurring arc dealt with "the Egg Man", an older Asian man who specialized in deadly gassing via infected eggs which he'd leave in subway cars. When the egg falls off the seat, a poison gas is released. But the series ended before any kind of payoff could ensue.

The final episode of seaQuest DSV introduces the Chao-Dai (or Chaodai), a group of highly skilled subfighters with highly advanced technology. They seem to be regarded as terrorists by the UEO and Macronesians, but very little is known about them.

Seemingly played/averted with Persona 4 Arena when the terrorists who hijack a Japan Airline Network flight appear to be lone wolves, until it's revealed that they were just ordinary civilians brainwashed to do the hijacking with air guns by "The Malevolent Entity".

In Soul Hackers, the Spookies are publicly accused as cyberterrorists after they discover that the Phantom Society is responsible for the events in the game. This is because the group were able to pull the strings in the government in order to do this.

A few of them are minor antagonists in Rainbow Six, as RAINBOW deals with them in anti-terror operations. Examples include Kang Revolutionaries in China and the Red Sun Brigade in America, which is an Expy of the Japanese Red Army with more money to launch bold terror attacks worldwide.

In all of the Street Fighter games (and countless other adaptations), Shadoloo (or Shadowlaw) is a Thai-based terrorist organization led by the mysterious M. Bison. They engage in various criminal activities such as arms and drug smuggling in order to gain revenue for the organization to sustain itself financially.

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